Pi Day

Today is March the 14 or 3/14 in the month/day format. This day is also celebrated by mathematicians as Pi Day, since 3, 1 and 4 are the first three significant figures of pi. As such, we are here to introduce some things you can do on Pi Day!

1) Eat a pie! (Or bake one and then eat it.)

2) Make a sky line out of the values of pi! (This is one of my favourites!)

Click here on how to do this.

3) Look for any digit in pi up to its 10 millionth digit here. Take note of any interesting properties you see about the value of pi and then go to the next point...

4) Recall the pi facts that you know or have learnt in school... Things like pi is approximately 22/7 or 3.14, pi is an irrational number, pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, etc. When you have exhausted everything you know about pi, then click here and explore the many more properties of pi you probably never knew about before today :)

5) Sprawl the internet for ridiculously pi-ish jokes like the one below...

(Hint for those who do not understand the above: Volume of cylinder = pi * r * r * h)

6) Sprawl the internet for insPIring mathematical quotes and motivate your friends with them.

7) Last but not least, go shopping for mathematics related items! Because you secretly know that there is more mathematics in your life than you want to admit.